Thing Quotes

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

Things happen in life and you can’t control them. It sucks and you have to move on.

Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.

You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.

It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.

I know she’s just trying to make things nice, so I do my part. Now, when I get up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, I turn on the light. I used to just go by sonar: just keep peeing ’til you hear water.

Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have.